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APPLE PARER, GORER, AND SLIQER.

No. 298,745. Patented May 20, 1884.

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XVILLIAM M. GRISCOM, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

APPLE PARER, CORER, AND SLIICER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,745, dated May 20, 1884.

Application filed May 14, 1883. (ModeL) T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM M. Gnrscon,

of Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania, haveinvented an Improvement in Machines for Paring, Slicing, and Goring Apples or other Fruit, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is designed as an improvement upon the invention for which I have a patent, dated January 16, 1883, No. 270,585; and it relates to that class of devices in which the paring, slicing, and coring are done simultaneously.

The novelty consists in the construction and arrangement of parts by which the screw is thrown into and out of gear with the rack, and in other features, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which-- I Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is partly a top view, partly in section on the lines A B and O D, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line G H of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section on the line E E, Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 a detail showing the disengaging-incline.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures, c designates the bar which carries the cutting devices, and it is adapted to slide between the parts a (1 g of the main frame and the parts a c g of the removable cap-piece. To

this sliding or reciprocating bar 0 is hinged, as

shown, the rack r, a pin, 1), operating through ears 1) on said bar, and serving as the pivot. The free end of the rack r is prevented from falling too low by stop-lugs 3, formed on the inner faces of the parts a a. The parts a (Z are rigid with the main frame, and the parts a d are rigid with the cap-piece, and these upright parts serve as guides to the bar 0 and rack r. The shaft fis journaled in stationary bearings and carries on one end a crank and on the other a fruit-fork, Z, and it is prevented from longitudinal movement by the collar 76 and screw 0, both of which are secured rigidly to said shaft. The screw 6 operates the rack r, and when turned in one direction forces the knife devices in the direction of the fork Z. A

spring-lever, an, operating in a suitable recess in the part a, carries a hook, s, which supports the rack r, and keeps the said rack and worm or screw 6 in gear during the paring operation, as induced by the housed spring a. As soon as the paring operation is finished, this hook s is thrown out of engagement with the rack r by applying pressure on the opposite end of the lever m, or, preferably, by the operation of the incline r upon the rack 1', which engages. the hook s to throw the same, out of connection, allowing the rack to drop out of mesh with the screw automatically and rest upon the stop-lugs s. The bar a, with its carrier devices, is readily forced back to a normal position, or will gravitate to such potion if placed upon a proper incline, as shown in Fig. 1. To renew the operation, the rack is elevated, the hook s is forced back against the-force of the spring a, and snaps under the rack as soon as said rack andserew are in mesh.

It will be observed that according to this invention the shaft 1 is hung in stationary bearings, and the rack a is automatically thrown into and out of gear with the screw 0 upon said shaft. To effect this operation modifications may be made in details of construction without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of my invention, the essential features of which have been stated.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim asnew is 1. In a fruit paring, coring, and slicing machine, the shaft f, carrying fork Z, and the screw 6, in combination with the knife-carrying frame 0 and hinged dropping rack r, and with means, substantially as described, for holding said rack in and throwing it from engagement with said screw, as set forth.

2. The shaft f, screw 0, and bar 0, combined with the rack a, hinged to said bar 0, and with the spring-hook 8, whereby the rack is held in and released from engagement with the screw 6, as set forth.

3. The combination, with the spring-hook in such a position as to throw the hook out of connection with the rack at the end of each This specification signed by me this 15th IO paring, coring, and slicing operation, whereby day of May, 1882.

the rack is allowed to fall, substantially as set forth. WM. M. GRISGOM.

4. In combination with the stop-lugs s, the bar 0 and hinged rack 1', the shaftf, hung in Witnesses:

Y stationary bearings and carrying the screw e, T. O. ZIMMERMAN,

the lever m, spring n, and hook s; as and for B. ROI. the purposes set forth. 

